To Comrade Shlyapnikov and Comrade Dzerzhinsky

The bearer of this letter, Comrade Vorobyev, a delegate from the Urals, has excellent recommendations from the local organization. The situation in the Urals is very acute: it is necessary to arrest immediately the management boards of the Urals factories (located here in Petrograd), threaten them with court proceedings (revolutionary) for creating a crisis in the Urals, and confiscate all the Urals factories.

Prepare a draft decree as quickly as possible.16

Lenin

(early December) 1917

* Telegrams of similar content were sent to Petrograd and Moscow. Ed.

Written at the end of November

First published (facsimile)

April 22, 1920 in the newspaper "Uralsky Rabochy"
(Yekaterinburg) No. 95

Printed from the manuscript